I feel bad for Mitt Romney. He had hoped to go on a whirlwind foreign policy photo-op, take a few bows on the world stage, and sell it all to potential voters back home. He failed miserably.He’d an easy enough task. All he had to do was slip into a well-pressed Giorgio Armani, stand next to a ...
In recent weeks, we’ve “learned” that dark forces are taking over the U.S. government from within.Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says so. So it must be true.Or, Bachmann is at it again – finding bloodthirsty anti-American ghouls where there are none.I suspect the latter.The three-term ...
It’s always a good time to honor excellence, even if that excellence is a little late in being honored.That was the case on July 18, 1955, when the Uniontown Evening Standard carried the front-page story about the championship trophy finally being given to the band of Uniontown’s VFW Post ...
Mitt Romney doesn’t know what hit him. He’d sucker punched his way through the Republican primaries, flush with cash, and eager to take on the sitting president. But something got in the way. It’s called Team Obama.Unlike the skeleton campaign staffs of Bachmann, Gingrich and Santorum, ...
When the Games of the XXX Olympiad open later this week, it’s a great time to reflect on Fayette County’s own Olympians.Of course the most notable was Connellsville’s John Woodruff, who won a gold medal in the 800 meter run at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin.But one Fayette County ...
The Uniontown Morning Herald reported in its June 18, 1962 edition that two local sisters had given birth to their children – not only on the same day, but in two different parts of the world.“Mr. and Mrs. Donald Crayton of Mount Braddock are parents of a daughter born at 1:30 a.m. June 30 ...